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by cornholio 9mo ago
Beyond the crypto architecture debate, I don't really understand how could anyone imagine a world where MS could just refuse such a request. How exactly would we draft laws to this effect, "the authorities can subpoena for any pie
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by cornholio 9mo ago
It's dismissive because most of the requests open source developers get need to be dismissed. " Where can I send some cash for your hard work " is much rarer than " Here's my very complex edge use case that I need t
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by cornholio 9mo ago
An alternative to ever extending the deadline is a Dutch auction model, where a bid consists of the maximum price you are willing to pay. It's a bit like integrating the snipping bot in eBay and allowing everyone to use it on fair term
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by cornholio 9mo ago
So, cloudification: lock the customer into a complex cloud dependent solution they can't easily migrate to some other commodity infrastructure provider.
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by cornholio 9mo ago
It's an archetypal social coordination problem that can't be solved at a local level. If relaxed zoning pushes all new buildings into my neighborhood, because all other vote against it, then I'm going to end up with 20 storie
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by cornholio 9mo ago
I would summarize the central claim of the paper as: the widespread use of AI to mediate human interaction will rob people of agency, understanding and skill development, as well as destroying the social links necessary to maintain and impr
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by cornholio 9mo ago
Yes, I don't understand how such an experiment could work. You either: A). contaminate the model with your own knowledge of relativity, leading it on to "discover" what you know, or B). you will try to simulate a blind operat
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by cornholio 9mo ago
Alaska received statehood a century after it was acquired, and only after being substantially colonized by Americans. It's entirely laughable to suggest that US will grant 2 seats ~= 4% of the Senate (plus one representative and 3 elec
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by cornholio 9mo ago
Seems Greenlanders didn't get the memo, the vast, overwhelming majority still think of themselves as "not Americans". This is the problem with historical narratives, history is not established fact but a continuous re-evaluat
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by cornholio 9mo ago
It seems the issue boils down to what the Greenlanders want: to become some sort of Venezuela of the north in Trump's imperial crown, and be used to maximize the profits of the American corporations that ultimately get to own it; OR f
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by cornholio 9mo ago
While I strongly doubt this is true, it still doesn't change the fundamental gamble Trump took: it's impossible to predict how a regime change attempt will go, who will betray and who will rally around the flag. Especially in a re
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by cornholio 9mo ago
Trump was extraordinarily lucky here, the Maduro regime was wholly unprepared and he was immediately extracted from the county; he can claim "mission accomplished", parade Maduro in front of the world media and watch from afar the
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by cornholio 9mo ago
HVDC is enormously expensive even today and completely impractical for bulk transport 100 years ago. You can't look just at corona, capacitive etc. losses of HVAC, you need to factor in the entire economic equation. The total overhead
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by cornholio 9mo ago
That's a bit like saying AC electricity was just a fancy way of delivering what customers really wanted, DC energy. I'm sure that DC customers used their Edison DC equipment for decades after the grid went AC only; but in the lon
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by cornholio 9mo ago
I think this kind of feedback is a good example of something an LLM is very good at suggesting. I regularly feed my important raw texts to an AI, and ask it not to rewrite it (!), but to give me line by line grammatical, style and tone advi
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by cornholio 9mo ago
In truth, I have never seen a company doing such an insane 180 against it's traditional suppliers as Google is doing against the websites populating its search pages which now Google milks as mere training data. Google Search is dead,
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by cornholio 10mo ago
> and this usage was given a "shelf life" While it might technically be true, that surely does not absolve the engineers who did this crap. There is a general social expectation that new buildings should be structurally sound f
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by cornholio 10mo ago
Manufacturers update software periodically on these devices, so each new generation is a MAX to some degree.
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by cornholio 10mo ago
You could say the aggregate is air and the cement still performs its role as a binder, it binds all the air bubbles into a stable matrix. Hence "aerated concrete".
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by cornholio 10mo ago
The UK crisis involved steel reinforced AAC beams that were used (of all places) to support roofs of schools. UK turned out to be a rainy place, the rain infused into the cellular structure and corroded the steel, with disastrous consequenc
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by cornholio 10mo ago
The industrial version is produced in an autoclave, this allows precise control of curing, density and final mechanical resistance/insulation values. Hence, the name the material is best known by - AAC. On the other hand, the video lin
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by cornholio 10mo ago
I think it was mostly a branding exercise, Salesforce wanted to signal to its customers that they are on top of this whole AI thing and there is no need to go to some unknown AI startup to "AIfy" their business. So they wanted to
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by cornholio 10mo ago
You know you need to be careful when an Amazon engineer will argue for a database architecture that fully leverages (and makes you dependent of) the strengths of their employer's product. In particular: > Commit-to-disk on a single
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by cornholio 10mo ago
The disater plan is to have a few dozens stratum 1 servers spread around the world, each connected to a distinct primary atomic clock, so that a catastrophic disaster needs to take down the global internet itself for all servers to become u
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by cornholio 10mo ago
> In Iran, some 90 percent of the water abstracted from rivers and underground aquifers is taken for agriculture. It's quite something they are envisioning a 100 billion dollar project to move the capital instead of limiting water w
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by cornholio 10mo ago
There has been substantial development in a replacement for all copper wires in the form of CCA - copper clad aluminum conductors. This product combines the advantages of both materials - low price and mass, stable connection, can be solder
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by cornholio 10mo ago
> All the 'large areas of land' that people want to live in already have dense cities. If by people you mean 18th century farmers or 19th century merchants, sure. I guess you could make some semblance of an argument for countri
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by cornholio 10mo ago
Sounds like a great test case for public intervention to shake up a bad market equilibrium: acquire large areas of land and build new cities and neighborhoods unencumbered by land use and zoning bylaws.
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by cornholio 11mo ago
> They wouldn’t “handle” it, they’d have some third party do their dirty work. Without proof, that's just an edgelord conspiracy theory. Police are not the Borg, perfectly coordinated in their evilness, all law enforcement agencies
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by cornholio 11mo ago
It's unlikely law enforcement would take the risk to handle CSAM just to make a case against a Russian pirate, jeopardizing their careers and freedom, when the copyright case is pretty strong already. These are the doings of one of the

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